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| Best integrated under $1500 with Phono Baranyi,The Berning is all that & more. It is definitely better with a preamp, but still better than most other things running direct. Buying the Berning now, and waiting on a preamp might be the ticket for you. I didn't have the Berning until... | |
| Best integrated under $1500 with Phono Baranyi,Your comments make sense. I can relate, as I was an owner of the 4.5s with BAT vk60 & vk5i a few years ago. Now I use a Berning. It is certainly better than the BAT to my ears, but it should be at double the price. (Not to mention the ... | |
| Tuner recommendations John is offering good advice. Analog tuners are the way to go. For under $200, you can get nice Sansui or Luxman tuners that will crush most $800-900 new digital tuners in sound quality. Believe it or not, but Ebay is the place to get the best dea... | |
| The Best Live album :-)Spencer | |
| Best integrated under $1500 with Phono Baranyi,Sounds like your budget has dropped since you originally inquired about amps & preamps to drive the 4.5s.It probably isn't what you want to hear, but IMHO you won't be fully taking advantage of your investment in the 4.5s with any inte... | |
| Your favorite recent discovery Vegasears,If you don't have The Trinity Sessions get it. It's killer. Recorded live in a church w/awesome acoustics. Cheers, Spencer | |
| Review: Emm Labs DCC2 DA converter Tim,This sounds like a great piece. Look forward to hearing it myself. I was going to put the Capitole on my long time wish list, but now I'll have to wait on that. I see that you no longer have a vinyl system. Was this dac the driver behind getti... | |
| O.K. Fess Up. Come Clean. Sing Like A Canary. Funny, When I talked w/Sal the gist of the message was, "Try it and I'll refund if it doesn't work out". He didn't have any experience w/the Nottingham design, and sounded far to busy to be messing w/spacers etc. for me. Certainly nice guy, just r... | |
| Avalon, Vandersteen... which to move to? Linkster,Have no idea why you think I'm generalizing based on older Avalons. I've heard the Ascendant, and am talking about what I heard from demoing them at one of the top Avalon dealers in the country. I agree with you that it's better than the ... | |
| What's the most anolog sounding CDP Well nobody has mentioned it yet, so I'll put in a word of encouragement for the Metronome CD2V. In my older system that included Cary amp & pre, it beat a Cary CDP- 306/200 at a fraction of the price. They were close, but the CD2V has a more ... | |
| O.K. Fess Up. Come Clean. Sing Like A Canary. Buscis2,Can you provide any more info on the new smaller Lift. I checked expressimoaudio.com, and saw only the older lift in the 2 finishes. That didn't work with my Nottingham Spacedeck. Couldn't get it to fit in the small space between platter a... | |
| I could use some jazz mentoring. David,If you like Art Pepper, Acoustic Sounds had(has?) great sounding test pressings for around $10. I bought the LP "Eleven"; it sounds amazing. And the plain white label scares and confuses my friends...just a side benefit. Cheers, Spencer | |
| Your favorite recent discovery The Thrills, My Morning Jacket, Flaming Lips-Okay this one has been a year or so, but I finally got it on vinyl...Cheers, Spencer | |
| I could use some jazz mentoring. Wstritt nailed it. Coltrane & Evans played w/Miles in his fifties' band; this was the best-loved and best-known that did for cool jazz what Led Zep did for hard rock bands in the early 70s.Check out the ads for Classic Records 45RPM series, in... | |
| Avalon, Vandersteen... which to move to? Nas,This is a tough one because these speakers sound so different from each other, it's like comparing ice cream flavors. Although everyone knows chocolate is obviously better than vanilla. The Vandys are nice all-round, a bit warm and forgiving o... |